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Oh, please. Capital has a cost, and infrastructure is both a depreciating asset and operational liability.

You've summarily lost your mind if you think any sane utility CFO would greenlight deploying capex to the tune of billions in gross excess of requirements for the speculative option of expansion capacity at marginal cost several decades into the future. Also, good luck convincing rate payers that increased costs realized today is to speculatively reduce the utility company's cost of doing business long after they're dead.